EDUCATIONAL ORGANISATION
Teachers work together in stages to plan and implement educational programs for the students in their classes. The classes are organised within the four stages of learning. These stages include:
Early Stage 1: Kindergarten
Stage 1: Years 1 and 2
Stage 2: Years 3 and 4
Stage 3: Years 5 and 6
The Assistant Principals supervise each learning stage, providing support and mentoring for teachers in those stages. Assistant Principals are available to discuss the learning and welfare needs of the students in the classes of the teachers whom they supervise.
Support Teachers ,School Learning and Support Officers work with class teachers to assist students with additional learning needs.
CURRICULUM: Key Learning Areas
The Board of Studies provides the syllabuses that all NSW schools must follow. There are currently syllabus documents in six Key Learning Areas that primary schools are mandated to teach. All syllabus documents are organised into a framework of learning outcomes and indicators within the four developmental stages (Early Stage 1 and Stages 1, 2 and 3). Your child’s class teacher is available to discuss in detail the standards and content of the teaching/learning programs at which your child is working. The six Key Learning Areas (KLAs) are:
1. ENGLISH (LITERACY):
- Speaking and Listening
- Writing & Representing
- Handwriting and using Digital Technologies
- Reading & Viewing
- Grammar, Punctuation and Vocabulary
- Spelling
- Responding and Composing (S3)
- Thinking Imaginatively, and Creatively
- Thinking Imaginatively, Creatively and Interpretively (S2)
- Thinking Imaginatively, Creatively, Interpretively and Critically (S3)
- Expressing Themselves
- Reflecting on Learning
2. MATHS (NUMERACY):
- Working Mathematically
- Number & Algebra
- Measurement & Geometry
- Statistics & Probability
3. HUMAN SOCIETY AND ITS ENVIRONMENT: (HSIE)
History:
- Personal and Family Histories
- Present and Past Family Life
- The Past and Present
- Community and Remembrance
- First Contacts
- The Australian Colonies
- Australia as a Nation
Geography:
- Places
- People and Places
- People, Places and Environments
- People, Places and Environments of the World
4. SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY:
- Working Scientifically
- Working Technologically
- Natural Environment
- Made Environment – Material World
- Built Environments
- Physical World – Earth and Space
- Living World
- Information
- Products
5. CREATIVE ARTS:
- Music, Visual Arts, Dance, Drama
6. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT / HEALTH / PHYSICAL EDUCATION (PD/H/PE):
- Personal Development, Health and Physical Education